yuri wrote: > 2009/2/21 Phill Coxon wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:59 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: >> >>> I'm sure google will tell you how to get to 4.2 and would be worth the >>> effort. >> http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2 > > Those instructions include adding a repository with the word > "experimental" as part of the URL. I believe this sort of thing is > what hosed my PCLinuxOS install (which prompted me to switch in the > first place).
I am a bit reluctant to use 'experimental' software as well -but in this case I made an exception. > It also warns that 4.2 is beta and may break things. > I don't want to break things again. I'd rather go to bed early tonight > and enjoy my wife than stay up late fixing things again. It broke some 'plasmids', and I finally accepted I would have to do without Quanta+ - but I use kate mostly anyway. I do not remember if it broke anything else. Had a lot of problems getting sound to work with flash - but I don't think that is a KDE problem. I'd tell you what I did but I tried so many 'fixes' I am not sure now what worked. > Hey, I'll probably cave in to peer pressure and give 4.2 a try. I'm > coming to the next meeting with a big rubber mallet if it turns to > custard though. > > Yuri >
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